HIROSHIMA BIBLIOGRAPHY

Periodicals

While I do not agree with everything in every source listed, these sources provide many of the pieces of a complex puzzle and, importantly, will provoke much thought.

PERIODICALS

Finn Aaserud, The Scientist and the Statesman: Niels Bohr's Political Crusade During World War II, Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 30, part 1 (1999); [Bohr was one of the first to call for international control of nuclear weapons]

Barton Bernstein, The Quest for Security: American Foreign Policy and International Control of Atomic Energy, 1942-1946, Journal of American History, March 1974

Barton Bernstein, Reconsidering 'Invasion Most Costly': Popular-History Scholarship, Publishing Standards, and the Claim of High U.S. Casualty Estimates to Help Legitimize the Atomic Bombings, Peace & Change, April 1999

Herbert Hoover, The Atomic Bomb - Statement by Former President Herbert Hoover, The Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 79th Congress First Session, 9/11/45 to 10/18/45, vol. 91, part 7, pg. 9213; [Hoover says the a-bomb is "barbaric" and international control is needed]

Philip Morrison, Blackett's Analysis of the Issues, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Feb. 1949, [a Manhattan Project scientist discusses P.M.S. Blackett's view that the a-bombs were used because of Russia]

Philip Morrison, Recollections of a Nuclear War, Scientific American, Aug. 1995, [a Manhattan Project scientist talks about the development and use of the atomic bomb]

National Review, R.I.P. (editorial), 3/29/58, [Hiroshima and lack of compassion]

Paul Nitze, Was Truman Right to Drop the Bomb?, Vital Speeches of the Day, 9/15/95

Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic Weapons, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 90, no. 1, Jan. 1946; [the a-bomb is "an evil thing", but it can put an end to war]

Martin Sherwin, Old Issues in New Editions, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dec. 1985

Edward Shils, Leo Szilard: A Memoir, Encounter, Dec. 1964

Leon Sigal, Bureaucratic Politics and Tactical Use of Committees: the Interim Committee and the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb, Polity, Spring 1978, [says Int. Com. was a rubber stamp for decision already made]

Alice Kimball Smith, Behind the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: Chicago 1944-45, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Oct. 1958